Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-08

a Grievons Pity that HIS visit
Cannot Extend to h. Western
Ocean.
The Salt Lake Tribune says the Presi-
dent of the United States is having q new
experience. He has looked upon the
Father Of Waters" he finds himself in
what he always thought of a. the ear
West" amid the rush and roar of nearly
half a million people, and realizes at last
that after all he is only one.third Of the
way across the land that halls him as Chief
Magistrate. He begins to fully realize
what is meant when the call Of the roll Of
States is made. It is but the call of EN-.
pire after empire. In bis journey he has
crossed but FIVE of these and entered the
sixth, and there are tive and thirty beside.
He will netice q difference in the looks and
bearing of the people. He will find
| changes in the dialect; that the tenor of the
East has taken on the desp bass of the
West. But they all hail him just the
same. His office is the same to all. He
| holds the office that Washington and Madi-
son and jackson held, only since they
| passed away the people have greatly mul.
| tiplied and property values have increased
| until among separate nations ours stands
first upon the earth. No matter with what
exultation a President of the United States
may reflect that his ambition has been
gratifed and his utmost dreams been real
lied; it seems to us his heart must be
humbled as he reflects upon the trust in
his hands, and his soul must be ceaselessly
asking itself the question; "Am I doing
all I can for this land that has so honored
nae, all I can for this mighty, magnificent
people who spread my path with flowers
and thrill all the air around me with af.
f~ectionate all hails?" It is a grieveus pity
that the visit cannet extend to the western
ocean; a pity that the President cannot
see how the crags are stormed for Their
treasures; how the desert is made to give
up its gems; to see what real mountains
with their crowns of pines are like, and te
see the people who in less than forty years
have blazed the trails and made them
smooth that the delicate sandals of Civil
cation might find q path, and how thu
work has gone on until State after Stat
more frontier. Presidents are as easily
taught by object lessons as any other class
of men. President Cleveland needs some
of these lessons that he may fully under
stand the country and the people, all tht
people, over whom he sits as Chief Magis
trate. And when on mountain and desert
and by the farther seashore he saw thu
same flag and heard the same greetings HI
would comprehend, as he never has yet
what native land means and what is meant
when in n acclaim, for three thousane
miles over . continent, sixty millions o.
people pay their devotions to that flag ant
to him as representing the Chief Executive
power of the Nation; he would return tx
his duties with horizon widened, with
more intense desire would he wish to con
secrats his life to the service of such q PEG
pie; he would be intellectually broadenet
and humbled and with a clearer vision
would he proceed to execute his trust. Hi
present visit into the edge of the West viii
do him much good, but he makes mistake
in thinking that he can serve his country
better by returning hastily home, than b,
taking in the continent and by actual con
tact understanding something of the peopl'
on its outer fringe.
Mrs. Mackay's Feather Cloak.